8 varsity exam paper racket agents named

Mumbai: The Bhandup police, probing the engineering exam paper scam, have named eight more agents but they are yet to be arrested. The police last week filed an 800-page chargesheet against 18 accused, including 10 Mumbai University staffers before the Mulund metropolitan magistrate court.
At least two dozen engineering students and 10 university staffers have been made witnesses in the case.The police have invoked sections of cheating, criminal breach of trust and criminal misappropriation of property under the Indian Penal Code.
They were also charged under sections of the Maharashtra Protection of Malpractice at the University and Other Specified Board Examination Act. The police also annexed a confidential report of the university which indicted its staffers.
They said they have traced only 99 answer papers out of 159 which went missing from the university strongroom.
“Our investigations are on and we are likely to file a supplementary chargesheet,” said senior inspector Sripad Kale. The answer papers were of applied mathematics and engineering.
University registrar M A Khan said action will not be taken against the students only on the basis of the chargesheet. “We will wait for the court’s directives and the final outcome in the case. Till then, results of the students whose names have emerged in the scam will be withheld irrespective of the chargesheet,” said Khan.